Welcome friends to issue #35
As we become busy enjoying the warmer weather it's nice to have a few quick to finish projects for gifts. Bracelets are the perfect choice! I had fun playing with herringbone and pearls, daughter Michelle linked speckled clay beads with sparkling crystals! Linda Gettings has created a delightful twisting design. Celebrate May Day with Ronit Florence's May Faeries with earrings to match! Elizabeth Ann Scarborough shares an adorable yellow paisley bird also with earrings! Ever wonder what to do with those uniquely shaped farfalle beads? Barb Nichols has the answer with her Iron Maiden Bracelet. Enjoy!
Best wishes & full bead dishes, Deb Moffett-Hall - Editor

Bronze Stamping Bracelet

Use even count peyote stitch to quickly work up a bracelet base with round picot edging. Add bronze colored stampings and art glass beads to complete the look.

Materials for a 7.75" bracelet:

100 Metallic size 8 Delicas (dark)

11-12 bronze stampings, 9mm from Kabella Designs

52 small round beads, 4mm

78 bronze seed beads, size 15

2 art glass beads, 12mm

14mm clasp

Needle

Thread

Individual Pattern is not available

May Faeries Earrings & Bracelet
by Ronit Florence

This delightful Peyote cuff celebrates May Day with beautiful images of May flower Faeries. Use Brick Stitch to create a pair of faeries to dance from your earlobes.

Wire is now available in metallic colors: copper, bronze and gunmetal.

These bead stringing wires are beautiful - even bare! I would call the bronze an antique gold & to me, the gunmetal is more of a pewter color, but the copper is spot-on! It is great for tin-cup style beadwork where the stringing material shows between beads.